Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [adj] points " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left the car in the park and strolled across to the cool of the veranda bar , which was decorated rancho style and was well supplied with electric fans at strategic points . |
| 2 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 3 | Among many symptoms of an orchestra past its peak are cracks in the trumpets at crucial points and a ropey violin solo in the second movement . |
| 4 | The existence of the singularities at these points implies that the lines and in regions II and III act as ‘ fold singularities ’ like those described in Section 8.2 . |
| 5 | The threat to British interests had changed , with international Communism replacing the political and military intrigues of predator European powers and Tsarist Russia of earlier centuries , but the policies for meeting the new threat remained traditional : the judicious stationing of garrisons to protect overseas territories from external aggression and from internal subversion ; the deployment of naval forces to maintain the freedom of the seas in areas of British interest ; and the positioning of strategic reserves at key points , like Egypt and Singapore , on the imperial lines of communication through Suez to the Far East . |
| 6 | A graph of against r 2 can be constructed by measuring the concentrations at different points in the cell and M 2 can be calculated from the slope . |
| 7 | be used to create a Time Line , whereby we create a visual representation of someone 's life history on the floor of the school hall — perhaps with still images at various points , or carefully chosen objects to remind us of particularly significant moments in a person 's life . |
| 8 | Once levels of savings and the ability to risk innovation decline ( sometimes exacerbated by malnutrition and food shortages at critical points in the agricultural calendar ) the necessity to ‘ do something about it ’ becomes all the more urgent and difficult . |
| 9 | This is done by applying wax rods at appropriate points which form ducts in the mould when the wax has been melted out . |
| 10 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 11 | They can also , in principle , build up more global analyses at different points in the utterance , and thus use syntactic and semantic constraints from the right , as well as from the left , in the analysis of uncertain areas . |
| 12 | Most Christian churches in Britain were built over the original sacred sites at these points . |
| 13 | Their values may be depicted on an Argand diagram and it is normal practice to denote zeros by drawing circles and poles by marking crosses at relevant points . |
| 14 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 15 | The whole zodiac was ten miles ( 16 km ) across , consisting of effigies outlined by rivers , streams , roads , tracks and contours , with earthworks at key points . |
| 16 | To broaden the emphasis on a two-handed process chart it is possible to add another column labelled ‘ attention ’ or ‘ sensory activity ’ and to try to describe human activity in these areas at particular points in the sequence . |
| 17 | The maximum possible score that any strategy could achieve was 15,000 ( 200 rounds at 5 points per round , for each of 15 opponents ) . |
| 18 | The maximum possible score that any strategy could achieve was 15,000 ( 200 rounds at 5 points per round , for each of 15 opponents ) . |
| 19 | When advised , they did insist on guard wires at several points . |
| 20 | That is that the County Surveyor chose in September nineteen ninety one to show reductions at six points on the existing road network . |
| 21 | There is , and must remain , a gulf between home and school which must not be eliminated , though it must be crossed by bridges at various points . |
| 22 | But this does not help much in understanding what marriage meant to men and to women in different social classes at different points in time and what in their minds justified separation . |
| 23 | Marines hit the ground either running or flopping on to their stomachs at three points along the 10,000ft runways as they took up positions . |
| 24 | No explanation which rests upon the contingent behaviour or strategic intentions of particular individuals in particular places at given points in time can be counted as ‘ scientific ’ in Althusser 's schema . |
| 25 | ( These types of calculation arise in project appraisal in developing countries introduced in chapter 6 , where the question is the intra-temporal equity one of weighing income/consumption gains for individuals at different points in the income distribution . ) |
| 26 | Reference will be made to fuller reviews at appropriate points in the text . |
| 27 | Such decisions relate primarily to satisfaction of the contribution conditions , but the legislation gives them competence on specific questions at many points . |
| 28 | These are sometimes naturally hollow with ants biting entrance holes at thin-walled points while others have natural invaginations . |
| 29 | The programs , which cost $500 and run on an Apple II computer , compute the direction and level of sound coming from anything up to 15 different sources at selected points on the ground . |
| 30 | Energy management systems are collections of equipment constructed from sensors , controllers , relays , actuators and other microprocessor-based products : they can be used to monitor conditions at particular points within a building ( or group of buildings ) and employed to regulate or reduce fuel consumption as required . |